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About this movie

Genres:
Drama, Documentary
Language:
English
Running time:
1:27:27
Partner rating:
PG-13
Released:

Cast & Crew

Cast

  1. Melody C. Roscher
  2. Ariel Schulman
  3. Henry Joost
  4. Yaniv Schulman
  5. Angela Wesselman
  6. Nev Schulman
  7. Angela Wesselman-Pierce

Directors

  1. Henry Joost
  2. Ariel Schulman

Producers

  1. Andrew Jarecki
  2. Ariel Schulman
  3. Henry Joost
  4. Marc Smerling

Writers

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Catfish


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Love and identity become twisted across the lines of the Internet in this documentary from filmmakers Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman. Nev Schulman is a photographer who one day received a surprising e-mail message -- Abby, an eight-year-old girl in Michigan, had seen his picture in a newspaper and wanted permission to paint a portrait from it. Nev gave his OK, and when he was given a copy of the painting, he was struck by how good it was, assu... Love and identity become twisted across the lines of the Internet in this documentary from filmmakers Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman. Nev Schulman is a photographer who one day received a surprising e-mail message -- Abby, an eight-year-old girl in Michigan, had seen his picture in a newspaper and wanted permission to paint a portrait from it. Nev gave his OK, and when he was given a copy of the painting, he was struck by how good it was, assuming that the girl was either a genius or a fraud. Nev tried to contact Abby's family, and somehow ended up in contact with Megan, Abby's sexy 19-year-old sister. As Nev fell into an increasingly complicated on-line relationship with Megan, he decided it was time to meet her in person, but when he traveled to Michigan and tracked her down, Nev learned that Abby and Megan's family were not at all what he expected them to be. Ariel Schulman, Nev's brother, began filming his brother's adventures from his first contact with Abby, and in Catfish he and Henry Joost tell this strange story from beginning to end. Catfish received its world premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
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Reviews by Rotten Tomatoes

Scored 'fresh' by Rotten Tomatoes

81%Tomatometer score: 81% positive reviews from professional critics.

percent positive reviews

  1. Positive review
    Marc Fennell, Triple j Whether its real or not is irrelevant. Catfish is an amazing, tense, charming, soulful, utterly surprising portrait about technology & psychology Full review External link
  2. Positive review
    Simon Miraudo, Quickflix If Inception had you jokingly wonder what is real and what is fake, Catfish will have you frantically scrambling around for totems to spin just to double check the veracity of the existence of... Full review External link
  3. Positive review
    Andrew L. Urban, Urban Cinefile Starting like any amateur video of a family member, Catfish is so poorly shot we could be excused for thinking that it was made to look as amateur as possible to enhance its street cred as a 'real... Full review External link
  4. Negative review
    Peter Galvin, sbs.com.au The trouble is the filmmakers seem to be stylists and opportunists; Catfish has the slick gloss of hipster media magazine journalism. Its deeper questions are never probed. Full review External link
  5. Positive review
    Dave Calhoun, Time Out If you begin with the premise that all films, docs and dramas, are constructs of one sort or another and it's the how and why that's important, you'll have fun pulling this apart. Full review External link
  6. Positive review
    Tim Robey, Daily Telegraph The film begs lots of questions about how, and when, it became clear any of this was worth documenting, but it certainly was. Full review External link

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    Catfish #3 Movie CLIP - Instantaneous Relationship (2010) HD

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    Catfish #1 Movie CLIP - A Drawing of Nev (2010) HD

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    Catfish #4 Movie CLIP - Here's Looking at You (2010) HD

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    Catfish #2 Movie CLIP - First Phone Call (2010) HD

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    MakingOf 'Catfish' Featurette

    A behind-the-scenes look at the documentary film 'Catfish', directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman with Nev Schulman. Watch more at http://makingof.com/

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